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| HFH India, Dow inaugurate three water treatment plants |
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| Mr. Natarajan - Asst. General Manager - Nabard inaugurating the water treatment plant |
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Representatives from HFH India & its local partner
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| Habitat for Humanity India, its local partners and Dow India have handed over three water treatment plants to families in coastal communities in Tamil Nadu state. Funded by Dow India, the plants are set up in the villages of Eraviputhenthurai, Thangammalpuram and Periyasamipuram. Nearly 1,600 families will now have access to five to 15 litres of safe water per family per day. “It is a proud day for us at Habitat for Humanity, to witness the completion of our vision to provide these three villages with clean drinking water, a commodity very scarce in the state of Tamil Nadu. We are certain that this will ensure the reduction of waterborne diseases and improve the quality of life. I would also like to thank our local partners and Dow India for supporting this project,” said Dino L. Touthang, HFH India’s CEO. HFH India’s local partners in the project are Evangelical Social Action Forum and People Action for Development. |
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| Let’s build a home “Brick by Brick” |
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| (L to R) Shobhha De receiving the cheque on behalf of HFH India with Mrs. Sheila Kripalani, Mrs Kanan Koticha. Extreme Right Mr. Rajendra Kalkar, Centre Director Palladium |
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| WIB Committee with Jacqueline Fernandez on the occasion |
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Joining hands with Habitat for Humanity on their first anniversary celebration on 26th Sep ’10, the Palladium extended its support for Habitat for Humanity India- Build a home brick by brick event on the 1,2 and 3rd October ’10 at the High Street Phoenix mall.
Jacqueline Fernandez a well known Bollywood star and all Women IndiaBUILDS members of Habitat for Humanity along with their specially invited delegates made their presence felt by participating in the event to promote it. The event, open for all was a great success and attracted a lot of attention by the patrons and media.
Habitat for Humanity India works towards providing shelter and assisting women and families of lower income groups with building homes for themselves. On 3rd October along with the above event Habitat for Humanity India also celebrated the Hard Hat Day. This event was designed to create further awareness of the cause.
At the event the Habitat for Humanity made arrangements to create a temporary rural house. For which all the material required like bricks, tiles, doors, roof and window etc. was available in the Mall. The patrons visiting the mall were invited to voluntarily contribute and complete the home by purchasing the construction material and actually placing it in the house them self.
The Palladium on its first anniversary celebration has already pledged 1% proceedings from Palladium Anniversary day’s sale to Habitat For Humanity India, at a ceremony hosted at The Atrium of Palladium on Saturday 25th September 2010. Ms Shobhaa De humbly received the cheque from Mr Rajendra Kalkar, Centre Director Palladium, on behalf of Habitat For Humanity. |
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| World Habitat Day (4th Oct.2010) |
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| HFH India organized a three-day “Let’s build a home brick by brick” event at the popular, high-traffic High Street Phoenix Mall in Mumbai, western India. Shoppers were invited to donate toward the cost of construction materials such as bricks, tiles, doors, windows and roof for a model house. They wore hard hats to support the Hard Hats for Habitat initiative before proceeding to “build” part of the model house. Bollywood celebrity Jacqueline Fernandez and members of Habitat’s Women committee provided some glitz to the event. |
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| Habitat DreamBUILDERS |
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| Mr.Prakash Challa, Vice President - CREDAI National & Mr. Nandakumar, Managing Director - Devinarayan Housing and Property Development joined by other CREDAI member organizations in passing concrete -mix |
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| Mr. Ramesh Reddy, Managing Director - Chaitanya Builders and Mr.G.V. Prasad, Chief Operating Officer - L&T South City Projects, laying bricks of hope |
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| In southern India, corporate leaders from the real-estate industry helped build Habitat homes in Thiruvallur district as part of Habitat DreamBUILDERS initiative. The initiative was launched by the Habitat Resource Center in Chennai together with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India(CREDAI), Tamil Nadu which represents private-sector developers.During the course of the build, Mr. PrakashChalla (Vice President – CREDAI National / Managing Director- SSPDL) said “Though we are always hard-pressed on time, we are extremely glad that many of us have been able to set aside a day to get involved in serving marginalised families direly in need of safe and decent homes. We are glad that today our reflection of World Habitat Day and solidarity to the cause, took the form of an active demonstration - of hard physical labour rather than an armchair lecture. We are also proud of our participant members who have been able to join us along in this unique initiative with Habitat for Humanity India.” Mr. Chitty Babu, President - CREDAI Tamil Nadu / Chairman & CEO – Akshaya homes, said “we are glad to lend a helping hand to families who want to help themselves. It is our pleasure to par tner with Habitat for Humanity India on this occasion of World Habitat Day to de monstrate our solidarity to the cause of adequate shelter for al l.” |
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| It‘s about meaning fully giving back to society, while at the same time, it‘s getting back to basics, said Mr. Nandakumar, Managing Director – Devinarayan Housing and Property Development. Altogether, three low-income families benefitted from the free unskilled labour contributions of the CEOs/MDs. The sheer demand of hard physical labour under blistering heat had left many enervated. However, as the day came to a close with the last pan of concrete mix being poured to complete a sec tion of the plinth-beam, a deep sense of satisfaction and smile came over flushed faces, with great cheers, claps and handshakes for a job a ccomplished and the dignity of labour but more importantly the difference it had made to the families. |
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| Mr.Chitty Babu, Chairman & CEO of Akshaya homes and Mr. Murugesan, CEO - Shriram Properties, laying bricks |
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| We Invite each one of you to wear a "Hard Hat & Build" with Habitat for Humanity |
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Wear a hard hat and remember families and children who live in poverty housing and are in need of safe, decent, and affordable shelter.
The hard hat is a symbolic representation of building and construction activities that go into creating a safe, decent and affordable home for those in need of adequate shelter. Hard hats and homes also symbolize protection -- during the construction process and the protection that a decent home provides for a family. Protection is typically manifested in better security, health,education, sanitation and economic opportunities.
Hard hats are symbolic of the mission and work of Habitat for Humanity - A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Adequate shelter elevates the health, social, educational and economic living standards of families.
Wearing a hard hat signifies that you believe in a world where everyone should have a decent place to live and is doing something about it.
Your contribution to the Hard Hats for Habitat campaign goes to supporting the mission and work of Habitat for Humanity to empower low-income families by building and rehabilitating simple, decent, affordable houses. |
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| JonathanTM Reckford, CEO, HFH International with Mrs. Rajashree Birla |
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Habitat for Humanity International’s chief executive officer Jonathan Reckford ended his four-country tour of Asia on 20th August. His trip to the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand and two cities in India – Mumbai and Bangalore – took in visits to project sites, meetings with corporate supporters, government and non-governmental organization partners, volunteers, journalists and staff.
In Bangalore the CEO along with business leaders, volunteers and homepartner families built homes for the poor. In Mumbai, he addressed a gathering of CEOs at a function organized by the FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence. |
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Reckford pointed out that corporations often started partnering with Habitat to improve their public image, but soon found that being perceived as a good corporate citizen attracted and retained staff, especially young people who wanted to work in businesses which contributed to the communities in which they operated.
Throughout the trip, Reckford spoke to local journalists about recent developments in Habitat for Humanity. There was also media interest in how his career had taken him from Wall Street to corporations to church management and finally to Habitat. |
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| Women Build Homes for Women at the Women Build |
| 8th March- 17th March 2010, Hegdenagar, Bengaluru |
To mark International Women’s Day, Habitat for Humanity India will host more than 100 volunteers in Bangalore, in the south of the country, for a Women Build. The event will open with a special ceremony to commemorate International Women’s Day and the two-week blitz build will see about 10 homes built in the slum resettlement of Hegde Nagar, north of Bangalore city. In addition to building homes, the volunteers will visit self-help groups whose members are saving toward the cost of their Habitat houses.
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| Star studded dinner in aid of IndiaBUILDS |
Indian movie star and official Habitat for Humanity Global Hero John Abraham was among the celebrities spotted at a recent dinner hosted in Mumbai in aid of HFH India. Fellow actor R “Maddy” Madhavan, who volunteered together with Abraham at the 2009 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Thailand, was also present. Earlier, Maddy took the opportunity to highlight Habitat’s cause when he was in Chicago, US, to promote his movie Teen Patti. He was quoted separately as saying that he plans to build homes in India and support Habitat’s reconstruction in Haiti with funds which he has raised. About 50 guests, including representatives from various Habitat programs in the Asia- |
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Pacific region, attended the dinner at ITC Grand Central hotel in Parel, Mumbai.
The host was Rajashree Birla, chairperson of India-based conglomerate Aditya Birla Group’s philanthropic arm. She is also co-chair of IndiaBUILDS, a campaign by Habitat to assist some 50,000 families across India and to mobilize volunteers and resources in meeting that goal.Read more…(attachment) |
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| Habitat for Humanity India runs in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2010 |
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The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on 17th Jan 2010 brought the city of Mumbai on one platform. 120 supporters chose Habitat for Humanity as the cause they would run for. The pledges raised by volunteers running in the Marathon totaled 42,000 Rs. |
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| 30 employees of Citigroup participated in the Corporate Challenge category and ran the Dream Run (6 kms) whereas three volunteers were from the ASK Group, Habitat’s Corporate Partner. |
Among the volunteers were HFH Staff, friends and supporters from American Alumni Association. T-shirts for the volunteers on this occasion was sponsored by Trent (A Tata Group Company). |
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